1. Use,utilize mean to make something serve one's purpose. Use is the general word: to use a telephone; to use a saw and other tools; to use one's eyes; to use eggs in cooking. (What is used often has depreciated or been diminished, sometimes completely consumed: a used automobile; All the butter has been used. ) As applied to persons, use implies some selfish or sinister purpose: to use another to advance oneself.Utilize implies practical or profitable use: to utilize the means at hand, a modern system of lighting.3. exhaust, waste. 7. familiarize, inure. 12. employment, utilization, application, exercise. 13. handling.

(philosophy, logic, linguistics) the occurrence of an expression in such a context that it performs its own linguistic function rather than being itself referred to. In "Fido" refers to Fido, the name Fido is 'used' only on the second occurrence, first being mentioned Compare mention (sense 7) See also material mode